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Title: The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Sanitation Sanitation
Publisher: Chicago : The Sanitary News
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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north Britain, ham and beef in Yorkshire,and tripe and onions in London? Not a bit of it.Hygeia had too much respect for herself as agoddess to indulge in such plebean and delusivedainties in hot weather. I can just see her in ascornful attitude, on the top of a marble columnsuch as Alma Tadema loves to paint—she wavesher hand over the smoking viands our goodcooks are sending up for our delectation. Shepreaches abstention in a way that makes onefeel creepy, as her words seem to come downfrom the cold marble. She is commanding herfollowers to keep cool with milk and water, andgrapes and strawbarries, and to leave all thealcohol and wine and beer for other occasions. Ibeg Hygeias pardon, and shall renounce heatproducers on hot days in future, although theyare very good, and like everything else, un-fortunately, what dyspeptics like best.— Chamb-ers Journal. THE POPES ATTITUDE TOWARD CRE-MATION.The Vatican has taken a singular step withreference to the cremation question. It has all
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NEW YORK APARTMENT HOUSE, FITTED WITH SANITARY SPECIALTIES FROM MYERSSANITARY DEPOT, 54 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK CITY. furnaces are but seldom kindled. The Italians,as a people, are slow to take up fads, andare accustomed to find the state interest itselfin ventures which in other countries are left toprivate speculation. The new decrees dealingwith the question are very wide in their applica-tion and very peremptory in their terms. Allaithful Catholics are forbidden to affiliate them- distinction between the Popes authority andthat of the Italian Legislature. In Germanythey will probably have no influence at all, and,presumably, not very much across the Atlantic,but in France and Italy the cause of cremationmay receive a temporary check.—Pall MallGazette. Sept. 4, 1886.) THE SANITARY NEWS. 227 AN ENGLISH NUISANCE. The London representative of The SanitaryNews, Mr. Henry R. Allen, was instrumentalin discovering and having corrected, the insan-itary condition depicted in the adjoined

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